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Certainly you can satrically imitate another dialect / sub-dialect of Cantonese (e.g. Toishanese, Yangjiang dialect) using a different intonation patterns, a different vocabulary and different ways of articulation. You can use a different intonation pattern for selected words (the listener can tell you did it on purpose) to create a humorous effect. One Hong Kong entertainer did a stand-up comedy by imitating the "lazy-pronunciation" Cantonese habits among many young HK speakers of today. Your question contains the word "prefer", which makes the question difficult to answer. That sounds like a topic for a whole PhD study. F.K. 2009/5/3 Jay Lemke <jaylemke@umich.edu>: > .... Do very intonationally complex tone languages > (where word and phrase level intonations change core meaning) like Cantonese > prefer non-intonational means for expressing irony or indicating that > something is meant to be taken humorously? > > JAY. _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca